[kdepim-users] Kmail: Search for/List emails within a date/time range?

[John Culleton]

On Friday 03 October 2008 02:09:09 pm Martin Bernreuther wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is there a way in Kmail to search for messages, which were
> received/sent within a certain time range?
>
> I've looked at  "Search in folders", but only found capabilities to
> search for strings within certain parts of the messages (like
> Subject, FROM, TO...) Within a certain folder there's no problem to
> accomplish the task, since messages can be sorted by date easily.
> If a "Search in folders" with a criteria that gets every message
> (e.g. message size>0) is done first, all the search result messages
> (in the virtual folder) could be sorted by date... But this is not
> efficient and not feasable for a large collection of emails with
> lots of folders!
>
> Looking at digiKam (http://www.digikam.org/), a KDE photo
> management application, the images (files) are grouped in folders
> (directories) analogous to kmail grouping emails in folders. But
> here there's also a date panel showing a calender, where you can
> "mark" a month, week or days and subsequently the corresponding
> images are shown.
>
> What is the preferential kmail way to do this for emails?
>
> Thanks,
> 	Martin Bernreuther

A simpler solution might be a reverse search of a folder, starting 
with the most recent date and working backwards. In most cases I am 
looking for a recent email.  I could then monitor the results and 
halt the process when the desired item showed up on the list. 

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